Major serious injuries to the body and mind can devastate a person’s life and livelihood, affecting not only the victim, but their family.  Medical costs and income loss are often in the millions of dollars and can be the ruin of a good family hardworking family.  Life changing injuries can come in many forms and from many types of accidents.  At MPTL we will guide you through this difficult process and help to make sure that you are fully compensated for your losses.  While no amount of money can make up for these losses, we can help make sure that the victims and their families can get the help and support they need to live the best life possible

Big rigs, tractor trailers, eighteen wheelers and buses are critical to our modern world in the supply of goods, services and transportation. But they are big, heavy and dangerous when not operated with the utmost care. When operated in the hands of a negligent driver, or by a company that overlooks safety concerns, they are deadly killers. We are skilled in understanding the state and federal laws regulating these commercial vehicles.

Construction sites are dangerous places. The companies and people who run them understand that. But when mistakes are made, people can be serious injured or killed. Sometimes it is a failure to follow proper safety measures that gets people hurt. These companies and their insurance companies are accountable when people are hurt. 

The brain is the most protected organ in the human body for a reason. Even a minor injury to the brain can change a person for life.  It can change the way a person thinks, feels and senses the world.  A successful and happy person can suddenly become unfocused, angry, confused, depressed, isolated and impulsive.  We understand how real this is and how it affects the injured victim and their loved ones.  We work with the best medical scientists so that we can understand your condition and present your case to a jury in a way they understand. 

Your spinal cord is the main electrical cable from your brain to your body.  It allows you to feel and move.  An injury to your spinal cord, big or small, will change your life.  It will change how you live, work and function in the world.  We work with the best doctors in the world to help explain to juries what a cord damaged person will need.

Many say that there is no worse injury to survive than a burn.  For certain, serious burn injuries are devastating to the body, mind and soul.  It takes understanding and experience to work with burn damaged people and their families to understand their suffering and, importantly, what they will need to make their lives better going forward.

This is one of our passions. Chronic pain conditions from an injury are so often dismissed or misunderstood by insurance companies. Scientists yet understand why on person might have an injury and recover, while another never ever does.  That often causes insurance companies to deny paying a settlement.  They and their experts often take the position that the injured victim is a fake or a fraud.

In fact, chronic pain disorders, like Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) have been recognized going back to the Civil War following battle injuries.  Chronic pain disorders like CRPS are caused by pain from an injury that can literally change the way the brain functions and experiences pain.  A person who might otherwise be expected to recover from an injury, like a broken arm, can become completely disabled in an unimaginable way.

Losing a loved one is always hard.  The unexpected and tragic loss of a love one taken from you by negligence or misconduct is devastating.  The impact to loved ones, spouses and children, including the loss of income and support to the family can have an impact for generations.  We understand that.  We have been through it.  We know what it takes to get our clients though this difficult time.

We put our trust in doctors and other health care professionals because, in many situations, we have no choice but to trust them.

We place our lives in their hands. We don’t expect them to be perfect, but we do require that they use the level of skill, knowledge, and care that other reasonably careful practitioners would use.

When a medical professional fails to meet the standards of their practice and someone is harmed as a result, the law requires accountability. Our system of justice for professional negligence helps ensure that doctors and hospitals do everything possible to provide patients with quality medical care.

Many of us have parents or grandparents in nursing homes.  Some of us have loved ones who are in care facilities because they need help and support.  

When those loved ones are not properly cared for and suffer harm, or are taken advantage of, physically or financially, the law is one their side.  We know how to help you with these terrible situations.  

The most dangerous thing that most of us do is to drive a vehicle of some kind on the road.

There are few things in life that involve the risks of driving. Yet most of us drive to and from work every day without incident. That is because most people take care to be safe. Most people follow the rules. When someone isn’t careful, people get hurt and killed. That means lives are changed and sometimes ruined. We have helped more people hurt in car accidents than any other type of accident.

Most products in America are safe.  We have laws and regulations to enforce safety. 

But sometimes mistakes happen. Or sometimes safety is overlooked for profits. Sometimes people are hurt because companies are not careful or they disregard safety. It is important to know if someone is hurt due to the failure of a product. It may save the next person from being hurt. 

All employees deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. No one should be forced to endure harassment, discrimination, or mistreatment because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

However, it is all too common for employers to believe they can act with impunity because they control the livelihood of their employees. Employers must be held accountable for their misconduct. The experienced trial attorneys at our firm exclusively represent employees in such disputes and stand against unlawful employer practices.

No one is above the law. When government officials or law enforcement violate constitutional rights, they should be held accountable for the harm they cause.

When government officials and law enforcement officers overstep their bounds and use excessive force, wrongfully detain an individual, infringe on free speech, or otherwise violate the constitution, they can and should be held accountable for the harm they caused.Civil rights cases are complicated, and we have the knowledge, skill, and expertise to navigate these legal hurdles and protect your constitutional rights.

Our roadways and surrounding infrastructure are critical to our economy.  Millions upon million rely on our roads every day. 

It is critical that our roads are maintained, inspective and repaired safely.  When people are hurt or killed due to a dangerous condition on one of our roads, you must act quickly to protect your rights.  In California for example, you must make a claim within 6 months of an incident, in most circumstances.